Amazon.com description: Product Description: What are our past lives, and how can we delve backward in time to recapture memories from our former selves? This is the vital question discussed in depth in this absorbing new study of reincarnation. The author opens with a presentation of the basic concepts that are common to the varied doctrines of reincarnation in diverse cultures and religions. Other important topics explored include the influence of past lives on our present existence, benefits to be derived from things we can learn about past lives, the relationship between Karma and past lives, speculation about future lives, and the uses of meditation to derive spiritual benefit from belief in reincarnation. The author offers inspiration and practical advice on combining belief in the principles underlying reincarnation with methods for achieving spiritual growth to enhance both the present life and lives to come.